Mixing Oil, Paint, and Soap Looks Like Flying Over a Distant Alien World

The next time NASA releases
spectacular footage from a flyover
of a distant planet or moon, you'll have good reason to wonder if what you're watching actually came from a spaceship, or from a microscope in a studio filming oil, paint, and liquid soap all mixed together.

Galaxy Gates
, directed by Oilhack and
Thomas Blanchard
, took four months to film. But surprisingly, the shots that ultimately made it into this two-minute short film represent only about two percent of the footage they captured. Seems messy, but at least it was worth it.